Gas turbine-engine.



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v UNITED STATES Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 6, 1906.

Application filed April 20. 1905. Serial No. 256,689.

To a/ll whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WrLMoNT E. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas Turbine-Engines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to gas turbine-engines.

It has for its object to provide a gas turbine-engine having rotary explosion-charm hers adapted to receive the explosive mixture, retain it while being exploded, and finally delivering the resultant gas to the turbine.

it has for a further object to provide a gas turbine engine embodying advantages in point of perfect operation, simplicity and incxpensiveness of constructiomand durability.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of the engine; Fig. 2, a vertical sectionsi view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig l. l ig. 3 is an edge view of the turbine. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of the turbine. Fig. 5 is an edge view of the rotary disk having the explosion-chambers. Fig. 6 is a side view of the rotary disk having the explosion-chambers. Fig. 7 is a fragmentary top view of the engine, partly broken away to show the relative osition at the upper part of the engine, of t e upper charging-inlet, the sparking plugs, the port leading to the turbine-cham- ;er, and one of the explosion-chambers when connected with the charging-inlet. Fig. 8 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line H 8 of Fig. 1.

In all the figures of the drawings illustrating my invention like reference characters designate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, the casing of my engine, which is conveniently constructed of three sections bolted together, comprises an upper cylindrical portion 1, supported upon a base 2. The cylindrical ortion is provided with a chamber 3 and a c amber 7, connected therewith by orts 8 and 9, said chambers being incloscd iy a jacket through which water is adapted to be continuously circulated for the purpose of keeping the, parts 0! the engine cool. Charging-inlets 1U and H for the introduction of the explosive mixture lead into the chamber 7, and exhaust-ports I2 and 13 lead from the chamber 3 to the outer air. The turbine 15 is located in the chambers 3 and keyed on the rotary shaft 16, journaled in the bearings 17 and 18 of the casing, and said turbine is provided with eripheral buckets 19. The rotary disk 20, w ich is journaled 0n the shaft 16 within the chamberY, is provided near its outer edge with diagonal holes 20, forming explosion- .chambers, and on its side with a circular toothed rack 21, en aged by an intermediate pinion 22, journaler on a bearing 23 and engaging a pinion 24, secured on the shei 1116. At a pointintermediate the port 8 and inlet 10 and port 9 and inlet 11 two sets of sparking plugs 25, 26, and 27 project into holes leading into the chamber 7 in the line of travel of the explosion-chambers, so that whenthe chambers. come opposite the plugs the mixture therein will be exploded.

The operation is as follows: The disk 20 being revolved by turning the shaft 16, the explosion-chambers, two at a time, are registered or connected with the chargingdnlets 10 and 11, receiving the explosive mixture therethrough, then come op osite the sparking plugs 25, 26, and 27, which explode the mixture, and finally register or connect with the ports 8 and 9, discharging the exploded mixture or gas therethrough into the buckets of the turbine 15, turning it, and as the buckets come opposite the ports 12 and 13 the spent gas is exhausted from the engine.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise details and arrangements of parts shown and described, but reserve the right to all modifications within the scope of my invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lette'rs Patent, is-

1. In a turbine-engine, a casing having a turbine-chamber, a turbine therein, a. shaft on which said turbine is secured, a chamber connected by orts with the firstnnentioned chamber and liaving charging inlets, a disk in said last-mentioned chamber rotatably mounted on the turbine-shaft and having expiosion-eharnbers, means for turning said disk on said shaft simultaneously with the turbine and sparking ilugs projecting into holes in the casing lea ing to said lest-mentioned chamber, substantially as described.

2. In a turbineengine, a casing having turbine-chamber, a turbine therein, a shaft on which said turbine is secured, a chamber connected by ports with the first-mentioned connected by chamber and having cha lug-inlets, a disk in said last-mentioned c amber rotatably mounted on the turbine-shaft and having ,ex-

lesion-chambers, sparking plugs projecting into holes in the casing leading to said lastmentioned chamber, a rack on said disk, a

pinion on the turbine-shaft, and an intermediate pinion meshing with said rack and firstmentioned pinion, substantially as described.

3. In a turbine-engine, a casin having a turbine-chamber, a turbine therein, a shaft on which said turbine is secured, a chamber orts with the first-mentioned chamber and aving charging-inlets, explosion-chambers in said last-mentioned chamber rotatably mounted on the turbine-shaft adapted to register with the first-mentioned inlets, means for turning said chambers on said shaft simultaneously with the turbine, and means for exploding the mixture in said explosion-chambers, substantially as described.

4. In a turbine-engine, a casing having a turbine-chamber, a turbine therein, a chamber connected by ports with the first-mentioned chamber and having char ing-ports, a rotatable disk mounted in sai last-mentioned chamber parallel with said turbine and having explosion-chambers, means for turning said disk simultaneously with said turbine and means for exploding the mixture in said explosion-chambers, substantially as described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 14th day of April, A. D. 1905.

- WILMONT E. CLARK.

Witnesses:

CHAS. L. WOLF, A. B. BLACKWOOD. 

